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Because a clone will take about two decades to mature? And if it's a full clone, will in all likelihood have its own ideas about who occupies its head? And will
by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Because a clone will take about two decades to mature? And if it's a full clone, will in all likelihood have its own ideas about who occupies its head? And will probably physically develop different from you, as development is partially environmental?
All sorts of problems with the cloning path to immortality.
- Anon84 17y agoOr you can assume that by the time you figure out how to download the contents of a brain, you'll have figured out how to speed up the cloning process. Or just start growing a "mindless" clone when you're 30 and start inhabiting it when you turn fifty and then repeat the process. Technically, these are all doable. Now, ethically and morally... that's a completely different story.
- jacquesm 17y agoThis is all nonsense anyway, but if you're going to do it then I would suggest a way that does not introduce generational noise between copies, or you might find after 'n' generations that you are not immortal after all. Best to keep 'cloning' from your original cells, not from the ones that have gone through possibly many such cycles.
- JCThoughtscream 17y agoAlternatively, save the entirety of your genetic code as a data file and update it to the latest storage medium every few decades. Even the best-preserved original cells will become unusable after a while.